After a while, Kong Shouzheng also rushed to the south with his guards, but his team was cavalry, and the number was not much, only a few hundred. Then they were covered with black and pressed Khitan iron horses, some wearing armor, and some wearing leather armor with their chests and abdomen exposed.

In fact, the difference between the physiognomy of the two races is not very big.

However, there is a fierce atmosphere, and his mouth is still shouting, like chasing a duck, He Jiyun said in a low voice: "There is." ”

The Khitans were very powerful, but the Song army had succeeded in confusing them, so they came all over the mountains and fields, looking very scary, but in fact they lacked one of the most important things, military discipline, or formation. One of the leaders was still shouting, apparently urging his men to hurry up. One is an infantryman, the other is a cavalry, and when they catch up, they are slaughtered as fat sheep.

He Jiyun waved his hand, and the guards blew the horn.

Song Bing turned over and got on his horse one by one.

Hu Da and Guo Da also turned over and got on their horses, Song Jiu almost wanted to say, you really fight, but you are not soldiers, even if you kill the enemy, how can you remember this credit?

Song Jiu also turned over and got on the horse.

Da Hei licked Song Jiu with his tongue, obviously he didn't know about the terrible battle that was about to take place.

The first to act was the Song soldiers on the various hills, but it was far away, Song Jiu couldn't see it, they lifted the camouflage on their bodies one by one, and those who were close to the mountain road on the top of the mountain lifted big stones and smashed them down, and those who were far away shot with ambush crossbows.

The Khitan people were incomprehensible, someone was shouting, the Khitan language, Song Jiu couldn't understand it, and it was probably an ambush in the shouting. The Khitans who were happening in the mountain road could not see it, but they could hear the screams of their comrades.

In fact, less often wins more in this way, and not only weapons. The combat effectiveness of the soldiers, as well as the psychological quality and morale of the soldiers. Just as they hesitated. The Song army came out. If it weren't for infantry to infantry, if that was the case, Zhao Kuangyin would not say that Tingwu was waiting for good news. The real decisive battle was still the cavalry. There are also horses, at this time, most of the horses used in the Song Dynasty were northwest horses, and there was no shortage of horses, which was a matter of cost, and whether the cost of raising horses could be affordable.

As soon as the Western Xia became independent, the Song Dynasty was forced to suffer, not only lacked war horses, but also had good horses.

This type of horse is taller and larger than the Khitan horse. The explosiveness is also strong, but the Khitan people also have advantages, Khitan horses can endure hardships, have good endurance, and they are mostly light armor, or leather armor, not Song riding heavy vests. Therefore, after running long, the Khitan cavalry still had a speed advantage.

A Song army came out of the mountains and forests.

There was no immediate collapse, but the Song army had the upper hand. Cutting repeatedly in a neat formation. What's even worse is that the Khitans behind can't rush up, the narrower the mountain road, the more ambushed the Song army on both sides, and the stones are constantly thrown down. The Khitans are also afraid of death.

Song Jiu stood on the hillside and watched.

Hu Da rushed down the hill with a roar, and Guo Da was okay and stood dutifully beside him. But still fought a little. A Khitan rushed over in a hurry. Song Jiu saw that the situation was not good, and pulled out the Pu knife to meet him. Guo Da also greeted him. In fact, the actual combat experience of the two together may not be as good as this Khitan soldier, but this Khitan soldier is also in chaos. The three of them were dancing with weapons in their hands, and they didn't know what Lu Dao was doing, as if they were drawing a ghost in the air. After the most reluctance, Guo Da happened to get close and slashed the person under the horse with a knife.

Guo Da cut off his head with a knife and hung it on horseback, to receive the merit, but Song Jiu was vomiting, and Guo Da was not very good, bending over and wanting to vomit.

If they were like the two of them, it would be over, but the other Song troops were all fierce. The battlefield is like this, it is rare to fight for a few hours, and whoever goes to a psychological breakdown will be defeated first. The Khitans saw that the situation was not good, and began to collapse, and some of them fled back.

At this time, Kong Shouzheng returned with the feint Song army and joined the battle. Most of his subordinates were infantry, but as soon as they joined, the Khitans finally collapsed and fled back one by one. He Jiyun shouted: "Chase." ”

He turned his head and said to He Chengrui: "Take the armor and report to Your Majesty." ”

Otherwise, it's too late.

He Chengrui cut off the heads of the Khitan people on the ground with a knife, took dozens of heads, and went back to offer victory. Song Jiu saw that he was busy cutting off people's heads, and he couldn't stand it, so he also chased after Guo Da. Many corpses fell along the way, some were Khitan, some were Song, but there were few Song people, eighty percent were Khitans, and there was a big victory, but the scene was very bloody. Song Jiu sometimes closed his eyes and ran forward with the big black carrying him.

Out of Shiling Pass, Kong Shouzheng continued to chase with his men, but He Jiyun stopped and began to clean the battlefield, collect prisoners of war, and treat the wounded. Seeing Song Jiu coming, he looked up to the sky and smiled, and said, "How is it?" ”

Kong Shouzheng was still chasing, it was almost noon, Song Jiu was suspicious, and the ministers were also suspicious, so they looked north together. Zhao Kuangyin was actually not very relieved, he was a Khitan after all, so he stood on the north platform and looked north.

A little after noon, it can also be regarded as noon, a horse from the north, the guards stopped him, asked who, He Chengrui replied: "I am He Chengrui, the son of He Jiyun, to His Majesty." ”

The ministers looked at each other one by one, and Zhao Kuangyin was also very happy, and it was his own clever plan to win.

In fact, his consequences were very bad, and several Song Dynasty emperors wanted to learn from it in the future, which made the front-line soldiers have a headache.

Because of Song Jiu's unintentional participation, this battle achieved brilliant results, killing nearly 2,000 Khitan soldiers and capturing more than 1,000 people, including Wang Pode, the assassin of Wuzhou, Wang Yanfu and other two assassins. But it can't all be Khitans, half of them are Han people in Youyun.

This made Song Jiu very worried, this call back and forth, don't kill Yuping's father. This is the Khitan soldier in Shuozhou, Wuzhou, once the army is sent to Hebei, Yuping's father will definitely go into battle. At the end of the battle, the most eye-catching was Kong Shouzheng, who pursued for more than 30 miles with his soldiers and horses, and at this time he slowly couldn't catch up, so he turned around and grabbed the prisoners behind. The Khitan coach Sha Xianggong, the king of the South, let him chase after him and lost his soul, and with his subordinates, he escaped from Yanmen Pass before stopping.

In fact, the Song Dynasty did not know the domestic situation of the Khitan, otherwise this time He Jiyun let go of his hands and feet to chase the enemy, and the harvest would be greater. But it can also be seen that if the Song army is defeated, it will often be wiped out, and there will be no escape. But the Khitans were defeated to such an extent that they lost less than half. When they saw that it was good, Song Jiu and other generals returned to Taiyuan City with the prisoners and captured weapons and baggage.

Zhao Kuangyin was not overjoyed. but thundered in the tent.

The Northern Han thought that the Khitan came to help, and there was no fear. Zhao Kuangyin also put his head on the table, and the prisoners also appeared in front of the battle. It's better to surrender this time. Still not surrendering.

So the city was sieged.

In the past few days, trebuchets have killed many soldiers of the Northern Han Dynasty, but the most killed are innocent people, and the soldiers are hiding behind the battlements, and the number of deaths is not as much as imagined. Four battalions were dispatched at the same time and began to attack the city of Taiyuan.

However, at this time, the Northern Han people moved out the stones that the Song army threw into the city, and in turn used these stones to defend the city. After a day of attack, the Song army suffered heavy casualties, and Zhao Kuangyin had to order to stop the attack. Chen Chengzhao, the commander of the Zuo Shenwu Army, offered advice, and there were tens of millions of soldiers under His Majesty. Don't do it.

Zhao Kuangyin made him stunned.

Chen Chengzhao pointed to Fenshui.

Zhao Kuangyin smiled, then I don't understand. Before Song Jiu could react, Zhao Kuangyin began to issue an edict, ordering officials to expel the peasants on the outskirts of Taiyuan counties to the city and build a long embankment to block Fenshui. Then let Song Jiu take the students to inspect the measurement.

Song Jiu understood and sighed, I don't know how many people in this flooded city have suffered again.

But you have to follow orders, and this damn war ends sooner, otherwise more people will die.

You can't fill in the water first. Instead, the embankment on the east side is raised from both sides, and the embankment is raised by taking advantage of the topography from high to low. He also built a river embankment in the south of the city. It is impossible to flood all the southern walls of Taiyuan together. However, due to the topography, the city walls are also uneven, for example, the terrain around the South City Gate is very good. To the west, it's very low. It was this section of the wall that was flooded.

Measure the height. The embankments on both sides were built, and then the Fen River was plugged. Break the Fen embankment and hoard the water level. And the waters spread to the south of the city until they submerged or washed down the walls. Zhao Kuangyin issued an edict to build a small boat and prepare to enter the city by boat. Then he summoned Song Jiu into the middle tent and said, "It's good to blow up the city wall." ”

"Your Majesty, didn't you start to build the embankment?"

"It's best not to build the embankment, otherwise it will break through Taiyuan City, and the people will die too much, and it will also hurt the heavens and the peace."

"Whoa." Song Jiu came to Beiying, which was Cao Bin's camp.

is also an old friend, Cao Bin said: "Xiao Jiu, you did a good job, you also have credit for this battle." ”

Because it was Zhao Kuangyin's finger planning, no one dared to say that in fact, Song Jiu had the merit of perfection, but could he compete with Zhao Da? Song Jiu doesn't care, he has a lot of merit, he doesn't care about this military merit, and he doesn't want military merit, it's not a good thing.

Song Jiu is measuring, Zhao Zan is blocking the water of the Jin Temple, the water is big in April, the water in the Wind Valley River cannot be blocked, the water flow is too large, but it is cut off from the west.

However, the city apparently also learned that the soldiers had dug a trench in it in the rain of bullets. Cao Bin asked Song Jiu: "Okay?" ”

"General Cao, it's not omnipotent, but if you want to crack it for the time being, it's enough to be busy in Taiyuan City for a while. Look at the picture in my hand. Song Jiu handed the picture to Cao Bin to see. There are two ways to deal with the city, one is to divert water into the trench, so that the soil will be damp, and the tunnel will be dug under the city wall, and the water will be dripped into the tunnel, but then the city wall is also dangerous. When the foundation of the city wall is unstable due to the dampness, you can also knock down the city wall with a crash car without gunpowder. Therefore, there is only the second method, its explosion point is under the city wall, send soldiers to lie on the trench to listen, if there is movement, stab with spears, can stab the soldiers alive in the tunnel. I have to admit that people are quick to accept war.

However, there is another way, that is, listen, such a long city wall, the head of the city needs manpower, the city needs manpower, and the city needs manpower, how many soldiers can be sent to listen. Therefore, the tunnel can be dug obliquely. But there is still a way to deal with it.

The main thing is that its advantages are not obvious.

Or obviously, Song Jiu didn't want to think about it, for no other reason, the number one enemy was the Khitan, that is, the Western Xia, and it was also mainly based on field warfare, and if he didn't study siege techniques well, he would become his own scourge.

Cao Bin looked at the pattern and asked, "It will be very troublesome to calculate in this way." ”

"Why else would I have to make trigonometric functions?" Song Jiu said. With it in hand, what is the difference between a straight line and a diagonal line?

This Cao Bin didn't understand, but looked at Taiyuan City and said, "This city is very weird. ”

Saying that it is tall and strong, or the terrain is treacherous, he has also broken through many cities, although some cities are not as tall as it, they are more sinister than it, and it is said that the Northern Han soldiers are strong, but as soon as the two are combined, there will be a chemical reaction. They all tossed to this, and the city still did not surrender.

The excavation of tunnels is not small.

May is coming, Song Jiu can't rest assured in his heart, he has suffered a lot of hardships in the army, and he doesn't know how to deal with the stall at home. Hearing the good news on the other side, it was exactly what Song Jiu was worried about, and the Khitans also knew how to encircle Wei and save Zhao, so they divided their troops all the way to Hedong and Hebei all the way. Han Chongyun met Zhao Kuangyin, and Zhao Kuangyin also said the strategy, the Khitan people go deep, they must come from Dingzhou, and pass through Jiashan. The Khitans really passed through Jiashan, and Han Chongyun was waiting for him.

The Khitans looked up and saw countless flags, and they were shocked, once the war in this era let the other party know the route of the march, it is very dangerous under all kinds of arrangements. Just like Xue Rengui and Non Qinling hid in Dafeichuan, Xue Rengui never found the main force of Non Qinling, but Xue Rengui's main force was clear about Non Qinling, and the final result was a big defeat for Xue Rengui. Han Chongyun waved the flag and struck, and the Khitan was defeated again. In this battle, a small general, Li Hanchao's son Li Shouen, led thousands of tooth soldiers to chase after him, killed many Khitan soldiers, and captured many leaders. His father Li Hanchao is a good general, and he also has a good friend named Ma Renyu, that is, the colonel that Wang Jixun wants to kill. This time, Ma Renyu will do something even more amazing, so Li Hanchao and Ma Renyu will turn against each other......

There is another point that Song Jiu didn't notice, that is, it was not Han Chongyun's main force that really produced lethality, he played a role in defeating, of course, the credit was the greatest, and only when he was defeated could he kill. However, in terms of lethality, it is Li Shouen's subordinates, and it is a cavalry!

The Khitan East and West armies were all defeated, Song Jiu listened to the battle report, first worried about Yuping's father, and then wondered in his heart, Yang Ye is not the Yang Ye in his memory, and the Khitan is not the Khitan in his memory, is the Song army so strong? (To be continued......)